Click here to view this and past newsletters online. Please add "messenger@truthout.org" to your email contacts to ensure delivery.  Saturday 28 April 2012 John Pilger | You Are All Suspects Now. What Are You Going to Do About It?John Pilger, Truthout: "You are all potential terrorists. It matters not that you live in Britain, the United States, Australia or the Middle East. Citizenship is effectively abolished. Turn on your computer and the US Department of Homeland Security's National Operations Center may monitor whether you are typing not merely 'al-Qaeda,' but 'exercise,' 'drill,' 'wave'…. What has changed is that a state of permanent war has been launched by the United States and a police state is consuming Western democracy. What are you going to do about it?" Read the Article Could We Stop "Signature" Drone Strikes in Yemen and Pakistan? Robert Naiman, Truthout: The US government has been increasingly carrying out drone strikes in countries with which America is not at war, and killing people with drone strikes who have no dispute with the United States…. The CIA had asked for authority to expand its drone strike campaign in Yemen by launching strikes even when it does not know the identities of those who could be killed. Such 'signature strikes' allow the CIA to hit targets based solely on intelligence indicating patterns of 'suspicious behavior.'" Read the Article No Such Thing as Too Much Truth: Saving Ethnic Studies in Arizona Genesis Lara, Truthout: "Learning the histories of the Chicano movement as well as biographies of outstanding individuals such as W.E.B. Du Bois and Malcolm X empowers students. These narratives remind students … they are entitled to all of its benefits. 'Precious Knowledge' is not just a documentary about protest and lawmakers; it is a film about the human spirit - the eternal strength and beauty of the human spirit." Read the Article United States Talks Fail as Pakistanis Seek Apology Declan Walsh, Eric Schmitt and Steven Lee Myers, The New York Times News Service: "The latest high-level talks on ending a diplomatic deadlock between the United States and Pakistan ended in failure on Friday over Pakistani demands for an unconditional apology from the Obama administration for an airstrike. The White House, angered by the recent spectacular Taliban attacks in Afghanistan, refuses to apologize…. The discussions aimed at patching up the damage caused by the American airstrikes last November that killed 24 Pakistani soldiers on the Afghanistan border." Read the Article May Day's Radical History: What Occupy is Fighting for This May 1st Jacob Remes, AlterNet: "The history of May 1 as a workers' holiday is intimately tied to the generations-long movement for the eight-hour day, to immigrant workers, to police brutality and repression of the labor movement, and to the long tradition of American anarchism.... Yet May 1 lives on, and indeed has been rejuvenated in the United States in the past few years…. Immigrants, mostly from Latin America, had brought May 1 back to its birthplace, and in so doing they resurrected its history as a day specifically for immigrant workers." Read the Article Fool Us Twice? Think Again, Chicago "Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel is proposing a bold new plan to rebuild the city's aging infrastructure. He has lined up financing giants including Citibank NA…. Chicago knows how partnerships can sour. Former Mayor Richard Daley's sale of the city's parking meters is now widely recognized as a poorly negotiated partnership that locked the city into a bad deal (for the city, not the investor partners) for 75 years." Read the Article "There Are Marxists in India?": Economist Prabhat Patnaik on the Global Crisis Robert Jensen, Dissident Voice: "We hear about India mostly as a rising economic power that is challenging the United States. While there certainly are no shortages of capitalists, there are still lots of Marxists in India, as well as communist parties that have won state elections. Patnaik represents the best thinking and practice of those left traditions - both the academic Marxism that provides a framework for critique of economics, and the political Marxism that proposes public policies." Read the Article Jobs (and Your Tax Dollars) for Christians and Crisis Pregnancy Centers Sofia Resnick, The American Independent: "If you want to help carry out the anti-abortion mission of the taxpayer-funded Care Net Pregnancy Resource Center, you have to be a Christian. It's right there on the Rapid City, S.D., center's volunteer application.... But that hasn't stopped the center from receiving federal funding and other forms of government support." Read the Article ALEC May Target Renewable Energy Mandates Maria Gallucci, Inside Climate News: "The American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), a conservative policy group, has helped state lawmakers craft measures aimed at curtailing U.S. EPA air pollution rules, repealing cap and trade and teaching climate skepticism in schools, among many other things. A future target could be renewable energy mandates, which are on the books in more than half of U.S. states." Read the Article A Miner's Life: Coca, Hunger and Fear Tom Clifford, The American Reporter: "At the cost of 25 years of their lifespan, workers toil 60 hours a week for $9 a day in the bowels of a mine that once funded an empire.... Working conditions in the mine are primitive: the air is unbearably hot and stuffy due to a lack of ventilation and is thick with flammable dust generated from the blasting of rock. The tunnels are poorly lit and narrow, restricting the workers' movement." Read the Article Click here for more Truthout articles
The BuzzFlash commentary for Truthout will return Monday, April 30th. Syria Peace Plan in Crisis as Cease-Fire Violations Spread NATO Security Perimeter: Chicago Summit Protesters Reportedly Leak Secret Service's Plan Romney's Advice to Students: Borrow Money From Your Parents Zimmerman Judge Still Allows Him on Bail, Even Though He Did Not Disclose More Than $200,000 in Contributions From Gun Types and Bigots to Defend Him Detroit Walkout: High School Students Suspended For Leaving School Start Freedom School Let's Just Say It: the Republicans Are the Problem Spate of Article on Women as the "Richer Sex" Are Deeply Misleading Click here for more BuzzFlash headlines
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